[Rhodes22-list] Song reference help--Bill?

[Wally Buck]

Slim,

If I come across any other like songs I will send your way.  I may have to 
purchase one of the Toyes CD. I am not the "King" but I can Google with the 
best of them. :-)

I agree with you regarding American Tune. I have heard a couple of artists 
cover this song. I always enjoyed it.

Wally

>From: Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com>
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>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Song reference help--Bill?
>Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 13:42:39 -0600
>
>Wally,
>
>I sang Monster Hash last night and it went over really well but nobody was
>laughing harder than I.  Thanks again.
>
>American Tune is one of those that just gets stuck in my head.  It strikes
>me as a good one for a 9/11 remembrance.  Revisit the lyrics in that 
>context
>and see if you don't agree:
>
>Many's the time I've been mistaken
>And many times confused
>Yes, and I've often felt forsaken
>And certainly misused
>But I'm alright, I'm alright
>I'm just weary to my bones
>Still, you don't expect to be bright and bon vivant
>So far away from home
>So far away from home
>
>I don't know a soul who's not been battered
>I don't have a friend who feels at ease
>I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
>Or driven to its knees
>Oh but it's alright, it's alright
>For we've lived so well so long
>Still, when I think of the road we've traveling on
>I wonder what's gone wrong
>I can't help it--I wonder what's gone wrong
>
>And I dreamed I was dying
>I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
>And looking back down at me
>Smiled reassuringly
>And I dreamed I was flying
>And high up above my eyes could clearly see
>The Statue of Liberty
>Sailing away to sea
>And I dreamed I was flying
>
>We come on the ship they call the Mayflower
>We come on the ship that sailed the moon
>We come in the age's most uncertain hour
>And sing an American tune
>Oh but it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
>You can't be forever blessed
>Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day
>And I'm trying to get some rest
>That's all--I trying to get some rest
>
>
>
>On 12/4/04 8:21 AM, "Wally Buck" <tnrhodey at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Slim,
> >
> >> From Monster Hash to church songs!
> >
> > This is what I gleaned from a few sites -
> >
> >
> > Paul Simon's ³American Tune,² borrows directly from the main chorale of
> > Bach's ³St. Matthew's Passion.² Simon's version quotes from the tune, 
>but
> > adds some other melodic material and of course puts his own spin on it.
> >
> > Originally it was hymn by H.L. Hassler (1564-1612) considerably before
> > Bach's time. Bach harmonized it. The English title is "O Sacred Head 
>Sore
> > Wounded",
> >
> > There are many translations of the original German "O Haupt voll Blut 
>und
> > Wunden", actually translated by by P Gerhardt from the even more 
>original
> > Latin "Salve caput cruentatum."
> >
> > Wally - Off to the lake!
> >
> >
> >> From: Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com>
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> >> To: Rhodes <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Song reference help--Bill?
> >> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 02:30:53 -0600
> >>
> >> Hey Bill (the research king), or anyone else,
> >>
> >> I had someone tonight in the club who requested a song that really took 
>me
> >> back.  Paul Simon's  "American Tune."
> >>
> >> It's the one that begins:
> >> "Many's the time I've been mistaken, and many times confused...."
> >> (and later)   "...and I dreamed I was flyin'..."
> >> Remember?
> >>
> >> One of my all time favorites from so long ago, I have the song in my 
>song
> >> book, but I was wondering if you happen to know the origin.  I think 
>it's
> >> from an old Episcopalian hymn.  I'd like to quote and reference it
> >> correctly.  I just thought I'd ask the King.
> >>
> >> Slim
> >>
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